This amazing museum, also known as Shankar's International and found the building Nehru in New Delhi, was created by a renowned political cartoonist, K. Shankar Pillai, Who was born in 1902 and died in 1989, has one of the largest collections of original dolls from around the world, being one of the most important museums of dolls in the world.
It occupies an area of more than five thousand square meters in the building of the Children's Book Publishing Trust Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi, created by the same artist, but has its own entrance, a majestic staircase that leads to a lobby.
The Museum is divided into two equal parts home showcases more than 160 glass display cases totaling more than 1000 feet long. One section shows dolls European countries, UK, USA, Australia, Middle East, Australia, New Zealand, the Commonwealth of Independent States and other countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and India. A special place is the collection of more than 150 dolls dressed India with authentic Indian costumes made in the Dolls Workshop attached to the Museum.
The collections are enriched through the exchange of dolls from India to abroad, each doll is hand made after a thorough investigation of the physical attributes, clothing and jewelry that characterize each region. These dolls have gained significant award as the Golden Peacock Feather Award in Biennial Dolls of Krakow Poland, in 1980.
It is said that on the occasion of organizing the International Children's Competition In the middle of last century, Shankar received a gift of the Ambassador of Hungary to deliver a doll as a prize. He was so shocked that not only failed to pass the doll as a prize, but the Hungarian doll was the first of the typical doll collection began to form since then, taking trips abroad as part of the entourage of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
The idea of a permanent museum for the dolls, when the collection reached the amazing number of 500 members, was Nehru's daughter and then also the Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi. The museum could be opened in 1965 in the building that bears the name of Nehru, a collection of thousand dolls, until 1987, added five more and are now six thousand five hundred eighty-five wrists countries.
This interesting museum can not fail to integrate the itinerary of every visitor to Delhi, to visit as do prime ministers, royals, diplomats and presidents from different countries. Advantages of many flight offers there are often provided to this city India, and enjoy a visit as interesting and funny as this.